Compatibility problem?

Sorry for the long e-mail but I thought you all might like to hear my account.

Well Martin ,OCTC is not an option for you and you have BG so therefore a choice and everyone wishes you well

I do not have a BG and after 2 &1/2 years I do not fancy a court action in Spain!....they are difficult to deal with in UK never mind in the different culture of Spain!!!

I am only interested in protecting my 40 % deposit and ' my personal view' is that my transfer to OTCC will do that...if I am wrong then so be it

If they had something on MCC ready now which we liked we may have chosen that option

I went to the site of OTCC on 27th February 2008 , nice day and nice views......Spain and other countries on the Med do get winds but no winds that day or the following Sunday.......I was in Mercia 11th April 2008.....lots of sun but ' gale force winds'!!!!!!!!!

I have photos if any one wants them

Now facts: 

Driving from Tabernas you will not see the sign...set back from road and small

But when you reach the sign Km 474 and another sign ' Aerodromo'  you will see some old buildings on your left and a track...this is where you turn into the site of OTCC

In my reservation contract the land is defined as ' land situated in the Municipality of Tabernas [ Almeria] , area of Retamar, in the place denominated Aerodromo de los Retamares' .......on an old airfield!!......in UK we even build houses on old airfields!!

I timed the drive time from OTCC to Tabernas at  3  &  1/2 mins 

The beaches at Almeria and airport is circa 30 mins Granada airport is circa 1 hr 25 mins

And from the post I have seen most people have liked OTCC

Now you have made your decision and should go full speed to activate your BG.....and you have to put pressure on your lawyer to do this.....many but not all seem to  get their money back in a reasonable time  

And what a nice position to be in!..........a good slice of cash in Spain which you converted say 1.50 > 1.46 and a flat market yet good mortgages are still on offer

Now you will not get a property similar to a Tarifa at 116/119,000 € even now, but you could get a 2 bed maisonette on Polaris World ready late 2008 for 130.000 € [ 2 year delivery this goes down to 119.800 €] and in Orihuela Costa at 104.000 €......I can go on and on with examples

But there are some good deals about!........lucky you

Many thanks for your reply !

I do not need you to tell me what i can buy and for what price, no doubt as usual you probably have a vested interest in the developments you have told me about.

I was looking on other forums the other day and i notice that you are on alot of those too !!!!

Fingers in many pie's ?!?!?

Good luck to you on your wind swept desert with no legal planning and yet again no BG !!!!!!

Martin...... Hope you find what you are looking for and after all the problems with ACC enjoy a life style in Spain

   

We have just received our bank guarantee for the full amount including the initial deposit paid on ACC. The expiry date is 29.9.2009. We have also received the full contract which included the building licence. The contact stated that building has already commenced, don't know if that bit is fact or fiction.

has anybody been to the occ site recently, if so, do you know if they have commenced work yet?

Not seen the site recently but received an e-mail from an ACC buyer who has transferred and visited the site a week ago....they are working on the site roads and digging out the foundations of the show houses 

Looks like OTCC is reality and a 15 month build time takes us to say September 2009 and for those of us on ACC who had a no BG it certainly looks to be the way forward...that is if you do not want MCC

The property down turn in the EU looks like being a 2 year recovery time, which takes us to 2010 by which time OTCC phase 1 will be complete with the services finished, which to be realistic are not as extensive as planned at ACC,

The price of our purchase is at 2004/2005 prices ,so by the time mid summer of 2010 comes around and we are enjoying the first full year of using it ,our investment will I suspect be looking good for the future!!!!

More and more buyers are looking for a Spanish environment and here at Tabernas you will have a modern property in that environment yet only 30 mins from an airport and the coast

Sure. this is an optimistic view, but perhaps after all the worries over ACC , evrything will turn out ' great'

Even if the recovery takes an extra year or so , does it matter if you are enjoying a life style

Clearly  Huma Indalo SL have to be able to fund the building so some may have doubts about this and about them producing the ' products'!!!

But for me who did not have a BG..........it is a great way forward

You know at 147.500 € - at todays exr circa £117,063 a Tarifa still looks good value .....just about get a good caravan in UK for this !

At our price 116/119.000 € ...at say an average exr of 1.34 circa £88,800...very nice thank you very much......and you never know the exr may just creep back close to 1.40 or above by Sept 2009!!! 

Hi Brian

Good news, we are going out in 3 weeks will keep you informed of the progress and take some pics to download

Just received some photos from an ACC buyer who has changed which clearly show that work has started

Will send copies if anyone wants them...no one can now claim that OTCC is just another Huma 'con' ......liking it  or not is a personal matter ........but it is on its way  

And many of us will be very happy that it is!!!!  

Could you post the pictures on this site?

As they are private photos with people shown, putting them on the site brings in to play aspects of responsibilities of public display 

 

Martini

Have you been waiting long for your BG. We went over on the 22nd March and were told we would receive our new contract and cancellation contract within a month. We have not had anything yet.

We have reserved a plot on OCC but not signed anything else as yet.

This is good news about you receiving a BG as I would have been reluctant to sign a cancellation contract without knowing of anyone who signed all the paperwork and received a BG.

Hope the is the start of something finally happening

We exchanged our plot on ACC to OTCC on 14th February 2008 (the first to do so)and have received all the contact and bank guarantee this week. All seems to be in order, our solicitor is happy and we are very pleased with the situation. I think " and now the final curtain - the dream is over should be changed to the dream is becoming a reality" It's a shame that there are people on the photo's I assumed they would be just the site. Never mond perhaps someone will take a few shots for us all to see, we cannot get over until next January as we run a pub, so it would be nice if someone posted some photos for us to look at.....

Hi everyone Just registered on this site, we have been members on the ACC site now since 2005 we have now transferred to OCC we went on a Inspection trip last month through Parador to see OCC and liked what we saw in fact we prefer the area to Almanzora

A couple of weeks ago we signed  our new contract on site after being there discussing everything for three and a half hours with Huma and our Solicitors on the telephone several changes had to be made to our contract before we would sign it, All we are waiting for now is our bank guarantees coming through.

We are on Manza 1 Tarrifa plot 26, the machines were on site starting to put the roads in at that time, we toured the area and called at some villages in the mountains which were very pretty anyway that's all for now off to work

Kev and Laura

 

Seems like the BG's are filtering through if G&T has one and we have, we signed late February. We were also told it would take one month but I think you should allow a little longer as the work load must be pretty big for the office staff, what with us happy bunnies on the OTCC site and the disgruntled ACC site purchasers, thats what we were told when we rang Huma. But they came and thats the main thing. I thought the photographs would be ok to post, sorry Rowlandsb I wasn't aware of the implications.


This message was last edited by Martini on 5/15/2008.

Photos of the site as we found it on the 4th May are now uploaded.

General area shots but one of the road infront of Manzana 1 is clearly visible with the stakes in for allocated Tarifas.